Escondido resident Lety Amavisca and her family have endured a string of housing woes in the past four years: an out-of-control mortgage payment, sudden eviction, temporary homelessness, a bankruptcy filing, and now, trouble getting credit because of a foreclosure.

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Pivotal has just hired engineer Benjamin Black — the regular Amazon employee who co-wrote the paper that would become cloud titan Amazon Web Services all the way back in 2003. Black most recently worked at Microsoft, where he helped build Office 365, its answer to Google Apps, and prior to that founded a startup called Boundary, which monitored computer networks.

The company that pioneered 3-D printed firearms wants to pay $15,000 for a carbon fiber 3-D printer so it can make guns.
In an e-mail to supporters sent Tuesday morning, Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, said that he will pay the sum to anyone who can get him the printer. MarkForged, the company behind the Mark One carbon fiber printer, says on its website that its printed parts “are up to 20 times stiffer and 5 times stronger than similar parts 3-D printed using ABS plastic.” The product normally retails for $5,500.
The firm's offer comes a week after it lambasted FedEx and UPS for refusing to ship its computer numerical controlled mill.
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Former McDonald's CEO Don Thompson abruptly retired from the brand in January amid accusations that his strategy was hurting US business. But McDonald's will pay Thompson $3 million for "consulting services," according to a report by CNBC. His replacement, Steve Easterbrook, will earn a salary of $1.1 million. Thompson retired on March 1 after 25 years with the fast-food chain.